![Sooty Ant-Tanager](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Sooty_Ant-Tanager.jpg)
The sooty ant tanager (''Habia gutturalis'') is a species of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
in the cardinal
family
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(
Cardinalidae); formerly, it was placed with the true
tanagers in the family
Thraupidae.
It is
endemic
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to
Colombia
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. Its natural
habitat
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s are
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Description
TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...
and
secondary forest
A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has re-grown after a timber harvest or clearing for agriculture, until a long enough period has passed so that the effects of the disturbance are no longer evident. ...
. It is becoming rare due to
habitat loss
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.
Taxonomy
The bird was first formally described in 1854 by the English zoologist
Philip Sclater. The binomial name derives from the Guaraní name ''habia'' for various finches and tanagers, and the
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
word ''gutturalis'' which means "of the throat".
The sooty ant tanager is a
monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...
species.
Description
![Sooty Ant-Tanager male with crest raised](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Sooty_Ant-Tanager_male_with_crest_raised.jpg)
19-20 cm in length. The adult male is dark grey with a conspicuous scarlet crest (not always raised) and a rosy-red throat. The adult female is duller with a pinkish-white throat.
Distribution and Habitat
This bird is found in northwest Colombia, occurring in the Upper Sínu Valley at the northern end of the western
Andes
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, and east along the north base of the Andes to the middle
Magdalena River Valley.
Its natural habitat is humid tropical forests, edges, gaps and mature secondary forest. It prefers dense streamside and landslide habitats in extensive unbroken forest.
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References
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sooty ant tanager
The sooty ant tanager (''Habia gutturalis'') is a species of bird in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae); formerly, it was placed with the true tanagers in the family Thraupidae.
It is endemic to Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical o ...
Endemic birds of Colombia
sooty ant tanager
The sooty ant tanager (''Habia gutturalis'') is a species of bird in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae); formerly, it was placed with the true tanagers in the family Thraupidae.
It is endemic to Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical o ...
sooty ant tanager
The sooty ant tanager (''Habia gutturalis'') is a species of bird in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae); formerly, it was placed with the true tanagers in the family Thraupidae.
It is endemic to Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical o ...
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